ubuntu 18.04 stopped working after update

had to boot into single user mode – edit the grub entry – add single near the end of the linux line – search single user mode ubuntu 18.04

Then I had to run the first few startup items so that I had a network – update the software and then install lightdm

the list of things to start you can get with ls /etc/rc2.d (leave off the S01 at the beginning).

then start them with systemctl start

e.g.:
systemctl start acpid anacron apf-firewall apport atd avahi-daemon

credit default swaps

Using data reported by Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation during the 155 weeks ending June 28, 2013, there were credit default swaps traded on only 13 reference names among U.S. banking firms:

Bank of America Corporation
Morgan Stanley
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Citigroup Inc.
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE:WFC)
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET)
Ally Financial, Inc.
iStar Financial Inc. (SFI)
American Express Company (NYSE:AXP)
Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF)
Capital One Bank (USA), National Association
Citigroup Japan Holdings Corp.

from: https://seekingalpha.com/article/1635052-u-s-bank-credit-default-swaps-only-those-too-big-too-fail-can-be-hedged

ubuntu 18.04 manual raid, crypt, lvm highlights

After many days of banging my head against how to get 18.04 installed with raid1, crypt, and lvm on new disks from alternative server iso, the crux was the 1mb bios boot partition at the beginning of both disks.
Without that I’d get all the way through the install and – can’t install grub “you’re f’d”

What I did:

partition 1mb bios boot partition 1mb into the disk – offset by 2048 bytes from beginning of disk for size of 2048 bytes. type is bios boot.

then I did a generous boot partition of 732MB as raid, then the rest of the disk as a raid partition.

setup raid on sd[a,b]2 as md0, sd[a,b]3 as md1

setup ext4 on md0 mount as /boot

setup crypt on md1

setup lvm on crypt
setup swap on lvm, setup root on lvm

assign swap as swap
setup ext4 on lvm-root mount on /

finish install